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[6516]1Odin Bug Report Tool Version 0.2.1
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30. DISCLAIMER
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5OdinBug is free software. It is not guaranteed to fulfill any
6particular purpose. Use it at your own risk.
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81. INTRODUCTION
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10This little program makes creating proper bug reports for Team Odin
11quite comfortable. As it is in a rather early stage, please do not
12expect it to be bug free or feature complete!
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14I don't want to know how often Sander Van Leeuwen and other Team Odin
15members have written emails, telling us users to bring in proper bug
16reports (I don't exclude myself).
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18Well, I would like Sander and all the others to spend there time on
19Odin and not writing emails about things that should be a non-issue.
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212. WHAT IT DOES
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23This program presents a form to fill in the information needed by
24Team Odin and generates a report that follows the standards presented
25in ReportingBugs.TXT which is part of every Odin build.
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27Some of the information is gathered from CONFIG.SYS and SYSLEVEL files
28and also from the odin32_?.log files. And some information has to be
29filled in manually (only the minor part).
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31It also scans the odin_?.log file to find the exception information and
32the stack dump in case an application traps. The aware that these logfiles
33can become quite large and that it might take a while until processing is
34complete.
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363. USAGE
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38As OdinBug.EXE is written in VX-REXX it needs the VROBJ.DLL runtime.
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40VROBJ.DLL can be found in the directory x:\IMAGES (x=CD-ROM drive) of your
41original Warp 4 CD-ROM and have to copy it into d:\OS2\DLL (d=bootdrive),
42or somewhere else in your LIBPATH.
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44Put OdinBug.EXE in a directory in your path.
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46Put OdinBug.CFG into the same directory within your path. If you are not
47familiar with REXX code, you can also delete OdinBug.CFG, the program
48itself has reasonable default values.
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50Call it after you experienced a trap in a Win32 program and
51after you have created a log file.
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53Every field can be changed manually, but using the "Search"-buttons should
54be the preferred method.
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56When everything is complete press "Create report" button. The program checks
57for empty fields, and if everything is filled out creates a report.
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59Pressing "EMail report" starts Netscape Messenger (or any other email program;
60see OdinBug.CFG) with the appropriate email address and copies the newly
61created report into the clipboard, so it can be pasted into the email.
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634. BUG REPORTS AND FEATURE REQUEST FOR THIS PROGRAM
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65Just email me and tell me what you think or what you want! I will try to
66realize it.
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685. AUTHOR:
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70Herwig Bauernfeind, 10.08.2001
71EMail: herwig.bauernfeind@aon.at
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